were promised distribution of land and a work code was worked out that eliminated the treatment as slaves and instead treated them as employees. The social and work structure of slavery was changed, but now they were subject to the laws from France. The former slaves were staging strike-like actions by coming late to work or leaving early. The women were demanding equal pay. The code of work gave them one third of the earnings of the plantations under the condition that they work a six day long and hard week. The author writes: "In spite of these coercive regulations, incentives, and punishments, many black workers persisted in their refusal to submit to a system regimented labor, by which they were still the exploited objects of property relations. (Fick 173). They began to steal rations and pillage and help the other blacks who were placed in jail in a "sense of solidarity" that was the leftovers of the revolt. France was trying to do under a system of economic wages, the same thing that it did under slavery. This would not work, because the blacks did not have the interest of becoming affluent nor of making France a world power. The army of the French in St. Domingue were black peasants and soldiers defending the interests of the French. This army included ex-slaves that were now financial slaves. Basically the dreams and aims of the black slaves had been ignored.The British and French war, and the colony's political situations were draining money out of France. This endangered the "survival of Saint Domingue as a French colony"(Fick 183). The British had driven Laveaux, the French general, to le Cap and Port-de-Paix. When Laveaux had refused Toussaint's's offer to join him if he gave full amnesty to the black rebel forces and to grant freedom to the slaves, he lost the support of Toussaint's, who allied himself with the Spanish. Toussaint remained with the Spanish but growing more and more suspicious of Spain's own ...
